Biopharmaceuticals Medical Evidence

**Location: Barcelona (on-site)**

BioPharmaceuticals Medical (BPM) ensures the best patient outcomes by providing healthcare decision-makers around the world with the evidence and confidence they need on AstraZeneca therapies, while supporting our internal stakeholders with medical insight and expertise. BPM provides medical leadership with market participation and connectivity while also impacting the life cycle planning and execution of all our products. BPM aims to lead AstraZeneca in achieving scientific leadership, being a great place to work, and keeping patients at the core of everything we do.

As part of this, BPM Evidence is accountable for the delivery of Global strategic studies required to generate the evidence to build the confidence on AstraZeneca therapies and additional observational and externally-sponsored research required by Global Product Teams. The Director, Health Data Implementation reports directly to the Head, Real World Science & Analytics. This critical role will support the design and delivery of world-class, innovative real world data (RWD) initiatives to be implemented globally for field medical teams, cross-functional partners and AstraZeneca country affiliates.

Platforms that integrate contemporary, location-specific RWD from primary, secondary, and tertiary care settings will be a key focus. The Director, Health Data Implementation will interact with a diverse range of scientific, technical, and business experts to ensure scientific quality, build the necessary capabilities at AstraZeneca, and drive the timely delivery of RWD to address critical needs for internal and external stakeholders. This includes close collaboration with the Global and local Medical, Commercial, Policy, and Market Access teams to enable enhanced access to AstraZeneca medicines, updates to national quality standards and policy, and value-based agreements for individual brands or across therapeutic areas. Externally, the Director, Health Data Implementation may collaborate with health systems, analytic experts and data custodians on partnerships that maximize AstraZeneca programs to leverage RWD to change clinical practice.

In order to accomplish our goals and enable the best patient outcomes, we look for future AstraZeneca leaders to have five (5) core capabilities: a track record of building and maintaining a deep continued connection to medical practice/healthcare delivery; collaborative/matrix management skills with a focus on leading diverse groups (e.g., cultural, geographical, functional) to achieve excellent results in shared goals; strong communication skills with the ability to distil complexity down to what matters to our stakeholders; strong budget & project management skills; strong business acumen.

**Typical Accountabilities**
- Lead the implementation of RWD platforms across countries, while supporting their design and development in collaboration with IT and other partners.
- Drive the strategic alignment of RWD initiatives (e.g., disease burden heatmaps) to medical and cross-functional priorities across therapeutic areas to maximize patient impact.
- Identify, initiate and foster strategic external partnerships to optimize our ability to positively impact health systems through RWD.
- Build capabilities across local and Global teams in identifying, acquiring, integrating and leveraging diverse RWD from multiple geographic and health system sources.
- Evaluate and assess strengths and weaknesses of external data sources for each therapeutic area to continuously improve RWD initiatives.
- Plan and advocate for the scaling RWD programs to maximize practice change opportunities (e.g., leading pan-market implementation teams), including resource management.
- Collect and drive visibility on RWD use cases, external impact and best practice sharing, including KPI design and management.
- Discover new use cases for applied data science and advanced analytic opportunities by exploring diverse datasets, assessing feasibility and evaluating new technologies.
- Understand and communicate on technologies behind RWD knowledge management and data insight tools.
- Translate problems into specific analytical questions and form hypotheses that can be answered with RWD.

**Education, Qualifications and Experience**

**Essential**
- Business and/or medical science degree with commercial experience is required.
- Expertise in RWD generation, delivery and translation to impact clinical practice.
- Experience in healthcare or biopharma industry, with a strong preference for experience in R&I and CVRM therapeutic areas.
- Experience in product marketing and deployment - delivering new solutions to market (ability to shape a new proposition to deliver value to stakeholders).
- Ability to lead and/or engage cross-functional working groups and teams.
- Proven experience of engaging with and leveraging insights from external customers e.g. external experts, patients and payers.
- Excellent project managemen